Three in one family killed by ‘same heart condition’

Ashley Tomlin said her world “caved in” after the death of her son Jak, ten

A mother and son who died from a heart ailment within weeks of each other may have suffered the same condition that had killed her grandfather less than a month earlier.

Jak Fada, ten, from South Shields, in Tyne and Wear, was taken to hospital with chest pains and died on November 6 from a ruptured artery. He had an operation when he was three months old to treat a hole in his heart.

His death came less than 24 hours after that of his great-grandfather, James Tomlin, although the cause of Mr Tomlin’s death has not been made public.

At the time, Ashley Tomlin, 32, Jak’s mother and Mr Tomlin’s granddaughter, said the family’s world had “caved in”. She said her son was a…

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